Well good morning everyone. It's Monday here and a public holiday for Martin Luther King day. So we have celebrated our first long weekend with a drive to Boulder yesterday.
Boulder is only 40 minutes away and is a very picturesque university town closer to Rocky Mountain National Park. It sits at the foot of a magnificent rock formation known as the Flatirons, named because they look like flat irons. The town itself has a lovely walking mall with buskers. We found real coffee and took a walk along the partially frozen Boulder creek. We also saw our first squirrel. Boulder is quite hilly and the houses were like something out of a picture book, multi-storied and shingled, very different to Denver architecture which seems to be mostly single story brick homes.
We have been enjoying some Denver hospitality here with a raft of dinner invitations. Our next door neighbours cooked us buffalo burgers with a choice of cheeses and dressings. Buffalo is really lean and tasty. The following night we had brownies and cookies and cream ice cream for dessert. Heaven! We are meeting really lovely people who have been so generous in finding baby gear for us and giving us travel advice. It seems that everyone we meet, or is it only Scott's friends, are outrageously fit. They do triathlons and exercise at the famous Dener Red Rocks amphitheatre. For those of you who are bored at work, check it out on You Tube.
Tess has embraced solids with gusto as we suspected she would. Yesterday she was eyeing off my beignet donuts. I just wanted you to know that I had beignet donuts and that's how you spell it.
The days are mostly sunny so the cold really doesn't bother us much. It's hard to imagine you all in an Australian Summer.
Scott is home now, so if you are reading this from home, please give him a ring. He is using my old mobile or you can reach him on our landline.
Bye for now, AM, Jason and Tess